Palestinian local sources in Gaza reported that the Israeli army has killed five Palestinian civilians on Wednesday evening.
The five, from the same family which include a father and his three
children, were killed when Israeli tanks invading the Gaza strip
shelled homes located in Beit Lahyia town in the northern part of the
Gaza strip.
With those five killed this evening medical sources in Gaza said that
the death toll now has reached 700, at least half of them were children
and women, and more than 2900 injured among them 200 in critical
conditions.
The Israeli army embarked on its military offensive on Saturday
December 27th 2008. Israeli warplanes started by shelling all the
Palestinian security posts there. In the following days the shelling
was expanded.
Hospitals, homes, blacksmith workshops, schools, and mosques where
targeted. Day and night all the Palestinian coastal region were under
attack. On Saturday January 3rd, 2009 Israeli ground forces entered the
Gaza strip and divided it into two sections.
The latest civilian target was hit on Tuesday Jan. 3rd 2009, the
Israeli troops launched an attack on a school run by the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency UNRWA in the northern Gaza town of Jabaliya.
The attack left 43 Palestinians dead and around 100 wounded.
Doctors said all the dead were either people sheltering in the school or residents of the nearby Jabaliya refugee camp.